Tag: Sports
Israel handed second straight mercy-rule loss at World Baseball Classic
It’s a good thing Team Israel manager Ian Kinsler has a sense of humor. Even after a nearly identical loss to Puerto Rico on Monday, Kinsler could still manage a chuckle after being beaten by the...
Demonizing Kohelet won’t silence calls for judicial reform
In the midst of a national convulsion in which opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are willing to stop at nothing in their campaign to prevent the government from enacting judicial reform, the...
Puerto Rico near-perfect in shutout of Israel at World Baseball Classic
A bit of World Baseball Classic mercy turned an almost perfect game on Monday into a 10-0 Puerto Rico win against hitless Israel over eight innings.
Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, consul general of Israel in Miami, threw...
Israel comes from behind to win 3-1 in World Baseball Classic
Team Israel’s first game of the 2023 World Baseball Classic against Nicaragua on Sunday was supposed to be its easy game before playing powerhouse teams Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. But it took a come-from-behind...
‘Team Israel will surprise a lot of people,’ predicts Israel National Baseball Team general...
Team Israel is currently battling it out in the World Baseball Classic in Miami, where it’s part of a grouping with powerhouses the Dominican Republic, which many are picking to win; Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Nicaragua...
Jewish football coach helped merit chip away at Harvard’s elite social status
When Harvard University named Bill Bingham athletic director–a pioneering college sports role at the time in 1926–the alumnus promised to return the game to student athletes. He hired Arnold Horween as head football coach...
Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter places second in New York marathon
Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter placed second in the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
She came only seven seconds behind the winner with a time of two hours, 23 minutes and 30 seconds.
Salpeter, 33,...
Israel’s marathon team wins gold in Munich 50 years after Olympics massacre
Israel’s national men’s marathon team won the gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, 50 years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympics in...
FIFA World Cup hospitality website continues to exclude Israel, lists ‘Palestine’ instead
The FIFA World Cup, which is set to take place in Qatar from Nov. 21 through Dec. 18, has a website that offers the public help in purchasing hospitality packages, but Israelis looking for their country...
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan
In another first for the country with the highest number of vegans per capita, the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team will be called Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv for the upcoming season.
This is a slam...